NAT: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern London by Claire J... - 9781138674844

NAT: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern LondonAuthor(s): Claire Jamieson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138674844, 978-1138674844\nSynopsis\nChronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century NAT (Narrative Architecture Today) who emerged from the Architectural Association at the start of the 1980s, this book explores the groups work which echoed a wider artistic and literary culture that drew on the specific political, social and physical condition of 1980s London. It traces NAT?s identification with a particular stream of post-punk, postmodern expression: a celebration of the abject, an aesthetic of entropy, and a do-it-yourself provisionality. NAT has most often been documented in reference to Nigel Coates (the instigator of NAT), which has led to a one-sided, one-dimensional record of NAT?s place in architectural history. This book sets out a more detailed, contextual history of .